Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the preceden...

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine ...

A mini art show of the celebrated artist's best-known and little-seen paintings, reproduced on stamps from around the world.  Exceptionally pr...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemens club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibit...

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. T...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies,...

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (19481951). Although the name stood fo...

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies,...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to i...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-fi...

A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspri...

A colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson 'Thompson, who finally seems to be on fames doorstep, invents in muc...

Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (18871965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private vil...

Marianne von Werefkin played a key role in the development of expressionism in the early 20th century, thanks to her knowledge of the latest develo...

Van Gogh's sublime artistry comes alive in this luxuriously packaged volume that features a canvas cover, impeccable reproductions of all the major...

Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also th...